Pongamia: Reimagining Agriculture | Naveen Sikka, Founder & CEO, Terviva

In this episode, Rishi Sikka, M.D., Partner at Lifeforce Capital and a Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health, speaks with Naveen Sikka, Founder & CEO, Terviva, about Terviva’s work to introduce a new plant medicine to the world market. They speak of the challenges of securing financial backing in a tight market, and discuss the importance of staying open to opportunity even when initial plans need to be altered.

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Naveen Sikka is the founder and CEO of TerViva, a food and agriculture technology company that is building a more sustainable plant protein and vegetable oil supply chain. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for Elemental Excelerator and a Fellow for Unreasonable Impact Americas. Previously, Naveen worked as a management consultant at Gemini Consulting and TPI. He received a bachelor’s from Columbia University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.